Work Day 4.21

Work Day on Sunday Night 4.21

Debugging the electronics of the pillow creatures...

6:00-7:15
Started by talking to Catherine about what's currently wrong with each creature. I think the list is as follows:

Large Pillow:
      - None of the vibrators are working
      - Voltage connection to XBee is shaky
      - The voltages on the transistors are not very intuitive

Medium Pillow
      - Flex sensor data coming from pillow is not intuitive (We have no idea why it's sending what it's sending)
      - LEDs are not mapped to the correct flex sensors

Small Pillow
      - Unknown... Wait on this one

7:15-
Catherine has to go home, started working on understanding one isolated circuit of the Large pillow.

7:30 --taped down conductive thread connections, stopped flickering of power to circuit.

7:45 -- I think the voltages going into the vibrator are reversed...

8:00 -- No they're correct

--Break from 8:15-11--

11:13 -- The battery is dead. And the low battery has been causing a problem. It can't supply enough voltage for the Arduino to properly send out 5 volts on 5 pins. With the USB cable attached, the proper voltages are sent out.